Tabula Rasa

http://www.plaync.com/us/news/2008/11/a_letter_to_the.html

I agree.

Tabula Rasa and Auto Assault.  Two games that truly had worthy potential and were different.  Rather than having a diverse model and something along the lines of a Station Pass, you just let these titles die.  I suppose NCSoft will only continue to divert its resources to MMO's that are either making TOP dollar or are popular to the eastern masses.

Either way, have a good one TR.

I'm to the point to where I don't really want to purchase another NCSoft game without a contract stating how long I can expect service.

If they provide a "minimum" of live service for 3 years I'd be willing to shell out 50 bucks and a monthly fee.  Otherwise I am really not interested.  These guys are getting a reputation for jumping ship at the last minute and I'm tired of investing in their bad ideas.

New ideas, different concepts, anything out of the EQ/WoW mold will just die...

It's sad, but the mmo community is just not ready or open minded.

-Those mmo's need time need time to acheive maturity 18-30 months.

-They need to cope with the low pop, service need to be built around low pop.

-They need to build instances to receive a low population.

-Those projects need to be maintaned by small developpers team in order to survive and develop community until anything else than elf,dwarf, is accepted as mmorpg setup.

Those large corps are very short sighted, the mmo community exploded after WoW phenomenom in america, and it's gonnna take a while before those new players are ready to accept anything else than auto-attack and timer based button/skills...

I always liked Tabula Rasa. I had alot of fun. Great sci-fi MMO, but...it lacks one serious thing..."End Game"! With a good RvR (if the Bane were playable) this game could be one of the TOP! Very sad news today.

kids....

kids.....

FUCK POTENTIAL!

what the hell, every jizz wad has the "potential" to be the next george washington, sadly most of them end up completely useless wastes of space (look at mmorpg.com for example)! potential means nothing!

this game promised diamonds and delivered dink. it failed and screw RG for even attempting it (not that he cares i assure you) for its lies deception and trickery (along with shit gameplay and plot) it gets shitcanned, good riddance to bad rubbish, deal with it.

dont pretend you care now because this game was crap from closed beta, it never got better despite the promises, even mechs couldnt save it (they were that shittily done).

hellgate dying sucked, this however is just what anyone who knows the industry knew would happen.

hopefully vanguard is next.

Originally posted by tastethegold

kids....

kids.....

FUCK POTENTIAL!

what the hell, every jizz wad has the "potential" to be the next george washington, sadly most of them end up completely useless wastes of space (look at mmorpg.com for example)! potential means nothing!

this game promised diamonds and delivered dink. it failed and screw RG for even attempting it (not that he cares i assure you) for its lies deception and trickery (along with shit gameplay and plot) it gets shitcanned, good riddance to bad rubbish, deal with it.

dont pretend you care now because this game was crap from closed beta, it never got better despite the promises, even mechs couldnt save it (they were that shittily done).

hellgate dying sucked, this however is just what anyone who knows the industry knew would happen.

hopefully vanguard is next.

Whoa, what crawled up your ass and died!?

Despite Tabula Rasa being lackluster in the content. It actually was fun.... but content and fanboi's held the game back... this game is riding on alot of potential... but the dev's were just a bunch of retards. Give this game to a REAL dev team... this game would be 10X better.

Hellgate... purely sucked, never was a mmorpg, shouldn't even been treated as one. And Bill Roper is a ass clown, ... that knew his game was going to fail before starting beta.

Vanguard??.... That game is actually good.... dumbass SOE is holding it back, ... cause they knows it's better then their precious EQ.

Originally posted by LoboMau

I always liked Tabula Rasa. I had alot of fun. Great sci-fi MMO, but...it lacks one serious thing..."End Game"! With a good RvR (if the Bane were playable) this game could be one of the TOP! Very sad news today.

Race based PVP was not going to save this game and would not have vaulted it to the top. It was a good Sci-Fi single player as an MMO it failed or does todays announcement not prove this to people? It lacked a lot of things and today just proves that.

Geez. They're sure doing a lot for their consumer-faith.

I know I won't be giving Aion a serious try 'til I see it with some City of Heroes-esque subscriber numbers. Assuming Lineage doesn't become the new bar and City of Heroes tanks soon.

they should just give the game to a tech school and let people that want to make or work on MMO use that as a learning tool best way to keep any game going even if the subs are low. any MMO that has low sub should be doing this sell the rights to a school so the people paying to learn can keep the servers going i have no idea why no one every though of this